al-Ṣūlī, the poet and man of letters, who was the uncle of Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā al-Ṣūlī (1). His grandfather was Ṣūl Takīn, king of Jurjān; he was originally from that region, then became a Magian, and later embraced Islam at the hands of Yazīd ibn al-Muhallab ibn Abī Ṣufrah.

This Ibrāhīm also composed a dīwān of poetry. Ibn Khallikān mentions it and found several of its pieces remarkable; among them are the following (2):

How many a calamity confines a youth (3)
 so tightly—yet with Allah lies its release;
It grows complete, and when its rings are fully locked (4)
 they open, though I had thought they never would.

Among his verses as well (5):

You were the very sight of my eye;
 for you the onlooker now weeps.
Let anyone after you die who wishes—
 for it was your passing alone I dreaded.

He also wrote to the vizier of al-Muʿtaṣim, Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Malik ibn al-Zayyāt (6):

You were my brother by the kinship of the age,
 but when the age turned sour (7) you became a relentless foe;
I used to complain of the times to you,
 now because of you I complain of the times;
I had counted on you for days of hardship—
 behold, I now seek protection from you.

And he said as well (8):

Let not the ease of settled living deter you
 when a soul yearns for family and homeland;
In every land where you set foot
 you will meet people for people (9) and neighbours for neighbours (10).

He passed away in the middle of Shaʿbān of this year in Surr Man Raʾā—may Allah have mercy on him.